Opis: The Golden West - Alicia Christensen

In the fifty years since its inception in 1961, the Bison Books imprint at the University of Nebraska Press has published some of the best historical, literary, and original western literature. The Golden West celebrates that continuing mission, bringing together some of the most beloved and iconic stories of the American West. Here, readers will find the classic West: from the adventures of the Corps of Discovery to the trials of the Oregon Trail, from the diverse landscapes of the Great Plains to the rugged Rocky Mountains and the Willamette Valley, from traditional Sioux culture to Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, and from the cowboys, ranchers, farmers, and mountaineers who often make up our western mythology, to their American Indian counterpoints in stories about tribal society, monumental battles, and interaction with white settlers. The Golden West holds something for every reader - fiction, poetry, memoir, folklore, firsthand accounts, and all the shades of gray in between. "The Golden West contains wonderful selections, provocatively arranged. Reading, I felt the pleasure of encountering old friends but also a stab of envy for the young readers who will travel these realms of gold for the first time." - Mary Clearman Blew, author of Jackalope Dreams, winner of the Western Heritage Center's prize for fiction "In this fine collection, the American West is defined by war, optimism, adventure, despair, discovery, innovation, hopelessness, and prosperity. This is the American West as it really was---sometimes rough and wild, other times serene and domesticated---told through the beautiful language of authors who wrote what they lived, and whose lives were shaped, as all our lives are, by the place they called home." - Ted Kooser, former U.S. poet laureate and Pulitzer Prize-winning authorPreface: A Celebration of Bison Books Introduction: The West and America: The National Significance of Regional Writing, David Wrobel O Pioneers!, Willa Cather; Plains Song: For Female Voices, Wright Morris; Waterlily, Ella Cara Deloria; My People the Siou, Luther Standing Bear; Little Britches: Father and I Were Ranchers, Ralph Moody; Shane, Jack Shaefer; One Man's West, David Lavender; Black Elk Lives: Conversations with the Black Elk Family, Esther Black Elk DeSersa, Olivia Black Elk Pourier, Aaron Desersa Jr., and Clifton DeSersa; A Cycle of the West: The Song of Three Friends, The Song of Hugh Glass, The Song of Jed Smith, The Song of the Indian Wars, The Song of the Messiah, John G. Neihardt; Crazy Horse: The Strange Man of the Oglalas, Mari Sandoz; Nebraska Folklore, Louise Pound; A Lantern in Her Hand, Bess Streeter Aldrich; Winter Wheat, Mildred Walker; Yonnondio: From the Thirties, Tillie Olsen; Letters of a Woman Homesteader, Elinore Pruitt Stewart; Covered Wagon Women: Diaries and Letters from the Western Trails, Kenneth L. Holmes; The Lewis and Clark Journals: An American Epic of Discovery, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark; The Gathering of Zion: The Story of the Mormon Trail, Wallace Stegner Source Acknowledgments; Contributors; Discussion Questions

Szczegóły: The Golden West - Alicia Christensen

Tytuł: The Golden West
Autor: Alicia Christensen
Producent: BisonGroup
ISBN: 9780803234888
Rok produkcji: 2011
Ilość stron: 248
Oprawa: Miękka
Waga: 0.32 kg

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